Doug Benson Has a Show…THE INTERRUPTION!

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FOR YEARS Doug has been doing this terrific live comedy show at M Bar, UCB and Largo in Los Angeles. Basically Doug would invite his comedy pals to do sets, sit off to the side with a mic and then butt in whenever he felt like it. It sounds aggressive in theory, but Doug is so dang funny that the results are usually golden chunks of riff-tastic goodness that never would have existed otherwise.

The smart folks at Comedy Central said, “Hey, let’s put this on the TV!” and so tonight shall this come to pass. AND HERE’S THE NARCISSISTIC PART: I’m on it. YES, dear Nerdist looker-at-ers, the premiere episode will include myself, Nick Kroll and Nick Swardson (two hilarious humans I am proud to call ‘pals’).

Having done this show with Doug all these years, it was SUPER fun to do it at the Music Box in Los Angeles with a swanky set and a cluster of awesome nerds as the crowd. There’s not a ton of places a comic can do stand-up on TV anymore, so not only does this accomplish that but also freshens up the format at bit. Here’s a sample!

Comments

Very disappointed–I was so looking forward to this after hearing about it on DLM and The Nerdist Podcast. The guys are (nod to C.H.) “amazing,” but three comedians in a half-hour time period is too much. It felt like they were just getting warmed up and they’re on to another fucking commercial or changing comedians. I hope ComCen gives this show its due–one comedian per half hour at least–two is pushing it, but three is BS.

My only problem with the show is that its only a half hour. I think they should only do one comic per show. I want to see more of all three of the sets shown. You were all very funny and Im sure there was more funny to be seen. Other than that the show was amazing.

I just watched it, and Chris was amazing! When I was watching the other programs on Comedy Central up till the show I was getting slowly turning into nerdhulk because every time they put up the commercial for the show there was barely any mention of Chris. (I really didn’t get mad, but I felt wronged fanatically :C )

THANK YOU! I knew there was a show starting today that I wanted to make sure I didn’t miss, but could not for the life of me remember wtf it was. But thanks to you’re midnight of the forth or 5th discussion I actually remembered the date for something… that’s very rare.